ABOUT US

Compton Health Bar is a health and wellness store in the city of Compton. We specialize in creating custom raw superfood blends for our customers based on your individual goals and needs. Rather than a destination, health and wellness is a journey that often requires outside support. With over 4,000 square feet of retail space, the Compton Health Bar serves as an inviting, uplifting community hub that provides high quality affordable health and wellness products along with knowledge about the most current health and nutrition tools and strategies.

We are located inside Del Amo Swap Meet, directly across the street from the Del Amo Blue Line Station. It’s one of the few indoor Swap Meets left in the Compton area that serves the cities of Compton, Long Beach, Carson, and surrounding areas.

Mission / Vision:

We take every opportunity to educate the community on how to lead a productive and healthy lifestyle. By helping customers understand how vitamins and supplements work with their body, we can make sure that each customer is provided with a product to address their personal needs.

Our physical store in Compton represents our commitment to the community – we believe our community deserves to have access to affordable, organic, all natural health and wellness products in a beautiful third space where they can rejuvenate, relax, be heard, and receive health and wellness knowledge.

As a business, we are now focused on manufacturing, branding, marketing, and promoting our own line of products. As our business grows, our ability to support our community will also grow. We intend to continue supporting community outreach programs and are proud supporters of CHIRLA (The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union).

Another part of our mission is to be part of the growth of fellow entrepreneurs and their small businesses, which is why another function of the Compton Health Bar is as an incubator for local entrepreneurs who want to showcase their products or services.

We are all dreamers – we are all stronger when we support each other – let’s get healthy AND put our dollars toward businesses that align with our values.

From Owner / Founder Dani Solorio

With multiple generations focused on natural remedies for health and wellness, my family and I have always had a passion for helping people lead healthier lives.

My parents left our home town of Zacapu, Michoacán, Mexico in 1993 and brought me here when I was six years old. As one of the many people who were brought to this country as kids, growing up undocumented meant that going to the doctor for preventative health was not an option – not safe, too scary, and nerve wracking. Often, even when we were really sick, we still wouldn’t go, fearing being “marked” because of our foreign documents of identification. Natural medicine was our best and most accessible form of care. It was in part through this experience that I learned to appreciate the power of natural healing through nutrition, herbs, and superfoods.

Despite taking honors and AP classes at Lynwood High School, as an undocumented student I didn’t qualify for college loans (DACA did not exist at the time). So I began to work anywhere I could be hired without documentation – warehouses and restaurants, etc. After saving and saving, at the age of 21, I opened my first business inside the Del Amo Swap Meet across from the Metro Blue Line where Compton, Carson, and Long Beach all meet. It was a teeny tiny movie DVD store that’s still holding on to this day. But my real passion has always been finding natural health remedies and sharing that info with people. After more years of saving (undocumented people cannot qualify for business loans), I opened my first health and wellness store in 2012 and moved into a larger space at the end of 2014. We spent three months building The Health Outpost, nail by nail, board by board. The whole journey has been a communal effort that could not have happened without the help of family and friends.

Today, I’m trying to embody and embrace the American Dream through my mission of bringing affordable health and wellness products to our community and beyond. We serve thousands of local residents, and we hope to expand our reach. I’ve developed a passionate ability for healing with natural herbs over the years, and now one of my greatest joys is being able to share the knowledge with our customers and watching them get the nourishment and relief I’ve had the fortune of experiencing myself.

Compton Health Bar has been a labor of love, and I’m so proud to serve the community and the folks I grew up around. We’ve become a lot of people’s go-to for superfood blends and other vitamins and mineral supplements that may assist in their health and wellness journey. Our loyal customers have spread the word, and that’s how we’ve grown – in the most organic way possible, and we are beyond grateful!